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Instructor Erin Dorney is a freelance writer and marketing consultant working with advertising agencies and small businesses, as well as individual clients, to help with marketing strategies and copywriting. She is also the co-founder of Fear No Lit, a literary organization that hosts writing workshops and events. Erin will be teaching Creative Literary Explorations for Artists & Writers, Writing About: Art & You, and Make & Take: Zines for us this fall. Erin comes to us from a rural town along Lake Ontario in upstate/western New York where there were lots of apple farms, tons of lake-effect snow, and cornfields aplenty. Now she is settled into Lancaster City and creating inventive and powerful experiences in writing and literature for PCAD and our greater community. Read on to find out more about Erin and her classes.

HARRISBURG – Pa. – Pennsylvania College of Art & Design (PCA&D) and HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, renewed and expanded an articulation agreement on July 10, 2019. The original agreement was signed in 2016.

Pennsylvania College of Art & Design welcomes Natalie Lascek as the Director of Continuing Education. For the past decade, Lascek has served as the Director of Admissions Marketing & Recruitment at PCA&D. Lascek joined PCA&D in 2000, where she worked in a multitude of positions as the College grew, including Marketing Assistant, Housing Coordinator, Admissions Counselor, Continuing Education Youth Coordinator, and Adjunct Instructor.

Looking to expand your design knowledge with Adobe Illustrator or add to your professional credentials in graphic design? We've got you covered. This summer, faculty member Matt Hannigan is teaching our Adobe Illustrator course on Tuesday and Thursday nights. Not only is this course a must for those wanting to learn more about the possibilities within Illustrator, but it is also a core course in several of our professional certificate programs.

Leah Limpert Walt is a painter, sculptor, and draftsman living and working in York, PA and received her BFA in Fine Art from Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. She has shown in New York City, Philadelphia, Bethlehem and throughout the lower Susquehanna Valley. Leah is an amazing artist and we're thrilled to have her back on campus as an instructor in two of our summer courses hosted by our Continuing Education department - "
Color Lab" in our pre-college program and "
Sculpture: Content, Process & Experimentation" in our adult (ages 16 and up) program. We sat down with Leah to do a small Q&A to learn more about her and her influences as well as the courses she will be teaching at PCA&D.

Julya Nicholsis often one of the first people you’ll meet when you come to PCA&D for a tour. Julya, a senior photography major from Parkesburg, PA, is one of PCA&D’s Student Ambassadors, a team of students who help in the Admissions Department and share their College experiences to visitors to PCA&D.

Austin Lord, PCA&D illustration Senior has created the limited edition silkscreen design created as an on-the-spot thank you for those who donate. "Extraordinary," right, is a small sample of the poster Austin designed. Bring a T-shirt and we’ll silk screen it for you. The event is free and open to the everyone,and you can enjoy 20+ non-profits, including PCA&D, on display, live music, drinks and appetizers.

Pennsylvania College of Art & Design and Warfel Construction have entered into an agreement to repurpose a former tobacco warehouse into housing for PCA&D students. The building, owned by 349 North Market Street LLC, at 349-351 North Market Street, downtown Lancaster is less than three blocks from the college and will be developed as an adaptive reuse project by Warfel into six apartments ready for occupation by “upper-class” art students, those who have completed their first or foundation year, by the fall 2018 semester.